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A Consistent Shot-saver -The Chip To The Pin
By MAX FAULKNER
The point I want to talk about here is one of the strokes I am practising pretty hard-that vital chip to the pin which is such a consistent shot saver. If the average handicap man took pains to perfect it as he could so easily-it would save him a steady half dozen shots each round.“
You know yourself how often you have played two perfect shots right to the edge of the green and then taken another four shots to get down. Just watch-suc- cessive fours come up to the lust green, as you are sipping your drinks on Sunday, and check up how many players muff, fluff, or stab that Inst little simple run to the pin.
Art
And yet it is really a almple shot. The main reason for the half-topped type of fluff so many preple get is that they bringing their wrists into the ahol
much too early in
And the tendency to "scoop". main reason for the stab effect, which makes the club strike the ball, and 19 ground before the Just as disastrous, is too long a Awing.
For all these shortish chips- from five or six yards short of the green-1
o my number
four iron. 'From further away; of course, the a steeper faced club to make sure I drop the ball on lu the cut part of the green and gel a safe run In. But let us keep to the shortish chip.
In the first place, I never take
it for granted. I never nssume that I can play it well all the time. I keep up regular prac- lice at it. It demands it. After all one is playing this shut to a maller of inches-not yards-of the hole.
As to the method of striking I think the best generalisation сол make is that it should be played alaust like a putt---lyst, naturally, degree more firmly.
First thing
clo when
approach a shot like this is to study the line and then carefully assess the strength and texture is of the grass on which the ball lying. Sometimes, if you are hitting against the fie of the grass, it takes a very firm club- hend to go through property.
CORRECT POSITION
Then I go through the mailons of my shortish, flat, easy back swing-making sure I get the
mution of pushing my hands through to the hole. Then I go up to the ball and play.
the
As
from you can see photographs I address the bull with my feet close together, the ball centred, and iny hands well forward of the club-head. And that is the position when I strike the ball.
THE CHINA, MAIL,
I la vital to maintain a firm; without the slightest tendency to grip throughout the shot and my scoop. The face of the club will after whatever loft in purpose In using a number four look iron is that I can stand a little needed, further from the ball than I would for putt and so get a fatter, back-and-fort.. swing- not picked up--and can be surer of a good line.
fi is no UNC stabbing and stopping. The whole secret of this shot-as so many others--is to make your sirike firm, the club-head striking into the back of the ball and going through
So remember those points- hands in front of the club-head, flattish short swing, firm grip. Arnly bitting with no scooping Finally, please give this shot a chanee by practising It, I have to do why not you? You'll how quickly within be surprised the hour-you can get the "feel" And as soon as you get of it. that, you've got shots to spare.
Half Way Mark important shut which so easily rolls three si
In Scottish
League Cup
By MAC
The initial stage of the Scottish League Cap today reaches the half-way mark, with the third of the six series of matches to be played.
Holding Dundee,
who sur- prisingly brat Rangers in the anal last season, entertain new- ly promoted Clyde. Clyde have an excellent attack, as was proved with their tally of 101 goals in last season's programme.
In
Leagu:
Ring McPhail,
and thrze Buchanan they have grand marksmin, but they will not find it as easy to pierce a solid, if not spectacular, Dundes definice, as they did to carve their way through the Division B sides,
Dundee, however, with Inter- forward Billy national Inside
at. Steci to promote their tacks, should not have the same trouble with a defence which was not strong even by Division B standards.
Hibernian, who were so suc- cessful in winning the League championship last season but met with such little sucrers in cup competitions will not have an easy task at Cle.
The Celts are not the power Soccer, they were in Scottish but they have a strong defence which may be able to hold the goal-hungry Hibs forwards at bay.
Rangers, beaten finalists last year entertain Aberdeen, In the competition last season, Aberdicon were the only side to defeat Rangers before the Glas
• EDW club lost in the final Apart from the time when they. scraped home by five goals to four agalms. Queen of the South
''Dons' this was the
only victory.
Aberdeen are struggling to atone for their duimal showing: of last reason, when they just avpiled relegation, were bottom of their, section in the Longue Cup, and only reached four of the Scottish Cup through tho-luck: of the › draw, - denke
round
This is the position at impact for this vitally # into ont of two. Note feet close, knees relaxed, hands in
club head, firm grip.
And here is the follow-through. Note club-) id f. ad pushed through like a putt and not picked up.
POP
still steady, grip firm,'
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1952.
SPORTING SAM
Lawn Bowls
By Reg. Wootton
Recreio's Win Of The First
Division Title Virtually Concludes The League
By TOUCHER
Season
Recreio's decisive 5-0 win over Taikoo last Saturday assured them of the First Division title, and brought practically to a close the 1951-1952 league season.
There now remain only 13 more matches in the First Division, two in the Second and one in the Third before the season's fixtures are completed.
Although the Recreio team started the league with more than average luck, their success was a deserving one.
Excellent teamwork was, defeat was unavoidable as in evident among them in all their their match against Craigen- matches, and with three reliable power. skips in Joe Luz, Johnny Ribeiro and Juckle Noronha, elt the front men played with perfec!cided, lawri confidence throughout,
With the league titles all de- bowls interest is now centred on the different events of the Colony Open Specially commendable were Championships which are due to three be concluded by September 14 the attitudes of all the
were with the Triples final. dips when the scorts
The first wo quarter-finals against them In encouraging their front men, and even when of the Singles played during the
Cricket Bureau:
When You Are Captain Never Become Rattled
Says N.W.D. YARDLEY
Captaincy Is exposed for what it is really worth when a team is in the field. By his knowledge of the tactics of the game, and by using thagiration, a captain can instil confidence into every man on his side and thus stimulate them to give of their best.
All sides experience their off days, but these come less frequently under able and alert leadership. Don't allow yourself, as captain, to become rattled, however badly your team may be doing.
Never relax your grip on the What good is it, for example, game, Encourage your bowlers, on a wet wicket with the sun and always be on the attack. shinging to bowl your two best Don't let your opponents dictate bowlers for their normal spells of the course the game. Once say 30 to 45 minutes when your the initiative passes out of your slow left-arm, or off-spinner, is hands it is difficult to recover the bowler most likely to do the It.
damage?
We are not all 'infallible, and on some occasions it is extremely dimcult to know exactly what a
Many captains appear to go on the fold-with-a sot idea about the order in which they will uso their bowlers. And, particulwichot is likely to do. Then is arly in the lower grades of the time for experiment.
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week saw the top favourlie Joe another casy victory Luz in which enhanced his prospect of winning the title for the second Opening time in its history. with a two and a four, he led A. H. Scomin all the way win by 21-11 on the 10th head. Seemin, however, put up a brave stand on the 7th head when the caught up to 6-8, but could not match this superior opponent from then onwards.
to
George Souza, who had been strongly fancied as an outside prospect for the title, finished up tamely in his match against W. C. Simpson to lose by 18-21 on the 25th head. The first 11 heads were a ding-dong affair with the score mounting to 11-1). Souza went ahead to 15-11 the next three heads but con- ceded two two's on the two fol-
on
lowing heads, Three singles brought Souza back into the lead of 18-15, when Simpson staged n brilliant finish to score six shots on the next four beads.
September 21 has bien tenta- tively set aside as the opening date, for the Gutierrez Shield Internation matches Lend October 17the date for the Aitkenhead Shield match which usually marks the close of the
season.
SOME SUGGESTIONS Suggestions that the lawn bowls season be carried forward Into the winter months have been voiced during the past, and seem to be worth the consideration of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Assa ciation.
An Inter-hong pairs and rinks competition should be an inter- esting affair, and another cam- petition suggested by a number
bowlers that could be run to show appreciation of the valu- able work done by the "different Club Fa-wongs, is 'one exclusive
for them.
cricket, they change the bowling Even though a wicket is It may be surprising to And
either by the clock or on a fair- share-for-all basis. This, course, is all wrong.
of
WHEN TO SWITCH Think of some of the factors that must influence a captain in deciding how to use or change his bowlers:--
(n) New ball; (b) State of the wickel; (e) Rate of scoring; (d) Characteristics of batsmen; (e) Resting the bowlers, and so
furth.
It is
of the duty captain to make a study of wickets and to appreciate which of his bowlers is most likely to derive benefit from any par- tlculor pitch
There
out what standard of bowls these suitable
for fast bowlers you cannot bowl them too long with-Fa-wongs can produce. out firing them out. Don't bowlised to be one at the Craigen- them both until
they are ex-gower before who took an B. W. for 1 pucket of hausted, but pata sicady bowler Bradbury In
cigarettes
every practice on
at the other end with match, and last year I watched instructions to keep the batsmen an enjoyable Inter-club matchi
Then quiet.
1150 your quick between some IRC and CCC Fa- bowlers in short spells, so that wongs played on the tennis you have always a fresh attack-courts! ing bowler at one end.
Incidentally lawn bowls seems You'll be amazed how often to be the only outdoor game in the steady bowler will get the Colony where a club uniform wickels through the batsmen iry-has not been considered ing to get cheap runs at the so- necessary. called "easy" end.
It will be difficult to restrict VARY TACTICS
players to wearing shorts or long trousers, but different de- Handling your attack must be
on shirt done intelligently, not mechani. Signs of club badges
more pleasant sight Keep in continual consultation cally, and tactics must vary con-pockets will make a lawn bowis
They may siderably with the length of the mate
from the spectafors' point of with your bowlers.
It is, for example, view and may probably have different views to yours, game.
that extra endislasm but may not a combination of different problem handling an
Test match bewlers themselves. both be the
Good attack in a 5-day answer? bowlers, or at least some of them, than in a 3-day County match. race And how much more so in the two-year-old like horses or prima donnas-they one-day or afternoon game. need to be humoured.
are
THE CHIEF AI
A preference for a particular end may be granted a bowler, otherwise ho TILDY bowl badly because he thinks he has been But put on the wrong end. everything must be subordinated to getting wickets, and getting them as cheaply as possible.
STORES
If every captain had the per- fectly-balanced attack at his dis- posal, how easy it would be. this seldom But unfortunately
usually has to happens and he make the best of the bowling resources he has got,
So this makes it more im- portant that he should be full of bright ideas and imagination.
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